MercuNorth–monitoring mercury in pregnant women from the Arctic as a baseline to assess the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Adlard, Bryan, Lemire, Mélanie, Bonefeld-Jørgensen, Eva C., Long, Manhai, Ólafsdóttir, Kristín, Odland, Jon O., Rautio, Arja, Myllynen, Päivi, Sandanger, Torkjel M., Dudarev, Alexey A., Bergdahl, Ingvar A., Wennberg, Maria, Berner, James, Ayotte, Pierre
• Other Authors: Faculty of Medicine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Meðganga; Norðurslóðir; Lífvöktun; Kvikasilfur; Arctic; biomonitoring; Mercury; Minamata Convention; Environmental Monitoring; Humans; Mercury/analysis; Pregnancy; Canada; Animals; Arctic Regions; Fishes; Pregnant Women; Female; Health (social science); Public Health; Environmental and Occupational Health; Epidemiology; Kiruna; Lukina; Sunderby Hospital; Landakot; Circumpolar Health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2834; https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1881345

Funding text #1 The authors would like to thank Dr Eric Dewailly for his vision and leadership on the initiation of this MercuNorth project. The MercuNorth project was an international collaboration, and we would like to acknowledge and thank all study participants and regional partners, including all participating university personnel and hospital staff, with a special thanks to Mr Anders Ruuth from Sunderby Hospital and personnel at Kiruna Hospital, Sweden, and personnel at Landakot University Hospital, Reykjavik. We would also like to thank Elhadji A. Laouan Sidi and Caty Blanchette for statistical analyses, and thank Anna Lukina, Ron Garson and Catherine Girard for their assistance with graphics. We would also like to acknowledge funding for this project which came from multiple sources across the Arctic, including a grant from the Nordic Council of Ministers (project #14137), funding from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Environmental Agency. Samples from Finland and Russia were collected and funded through the Kolarctic ENPI CBC 2007-2013 project (KO467) “Food and Health Security in the Norwegian, Russian and Finnish border regions: linking local industries, communities and socio-economic impacts”. Funding text #2 This work was supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers [Project #14137]; Swedish Environmental Protection Agency [n/a]; Kolarctic ENPI CBC 2007-2013 programme [n/a]; Danish Environmental Agency [n/a]. The authors would like to thank Dr Eric Dewailly for his vision and leadership on the initiation of this MercuNorth project. The MercuNorth project was an international collaboration, and we would like to acknowledge and thank all study participants and regional partners, including all participating university personnel and hospital staff, with a special thanks to Mr Anders Ruuth from Sunderby Hospital and personnel at Kiruna Hospital, Sweden, and personnel at Landakot University Hospital, Reykjavik. We would also like to thank Elhadji A. Laouan Sidi and Caty Blanchette ...